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O'Sullivan, Timothy Michael.

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The mind in motion: The cultural significance of walking in the Roman world.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The mind in motion: The cultural significance of walking in the Roman world./
Author:	O'Sullivan, Timothy Michael.
Description:	151 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Kathleen M. Coleman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Classical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3091650

The mind in motion: The cultural significance of walking in the Roman world.
O'Sullivan, Timothy Michael.

The mind in motion: The cultural significance of walking in the Roman world. - 151 p.

Adviser: Kathleen M. Coleman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2003.

This dissertation traces a history of the changing meanings, manners, and settings of Roman walks, from the intellectual environment of the <italic> gymnasia</italic> of Classical Greece, to the peristyles and garden paths of the aristocratic Roman villa, to the lavishly appointed public porticoes of late-republican Rome. The first chapter examines the attention paid to the physical act of walking in the Roman world, and how the gait was believed to reveal a person's character and thoughts. Elite males in particular were attuned to the language of the body, and the emphasis on proper physical comportment in rhetorical training suggests that the gait was a critical element of gender and class identity. The second chapter discusses the popularity of walking as a venue for intellectual discussion and philosophical contemplation, particularly in the Roman home, where both house design and even the physical activity of walking itself consciously evoked the landscape of Greek philosophy. The third chapter analyzes the literary, archaeological, and topographical evidence that reveals how the city of Rome was experienced on foot, focusing in particular on the public architecture of walking. The final chapter of the dissertation discusses the Odyssey Landscapes, a Roman wall painting from the second half of the first century B.C. In this painting, the viewer's walk, encouraged by the framing portico, is not only part of the narrative technique—whereby we ‘walk’ through the landscapes along with Odysseus—but also the appropriate cultural activity for a philosophical contemplation of the story depicted.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

The mind in motion: The cultural significance of walking in the Roman world.
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